Oil spill mapping with Sentinel-1

RUS environment demo: Oil spill mapping with Sentinel-1

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Oil spill mapping with Sentinel-1

In this webinar, you will learn
the basics of image processing for oil spill mapping. We will show you how to
access the RUS Service and how to download, process, analyse and visualize the
free data acquired by the Copernicus satellites. We will employ the ESA
SNAP Sentinel-1 Toolbox to demonstrate the methodology to map an area affected
by this type of pollution.

Background

Ocean pollution due to oil spills
remains a major environmental hazard. Although oil tanker accidents are
well-known, they are not the main cause for this type of event. Illegal
discharges from ships or offshore platforms, drilling rigs, pipeline accidents
or natural leaks amongst others bring together most of the sources for oil
pollution in the ocean.

Satellite
based Earth Observation is an additional surveillance tool that can be readily
used to provide synoptic and strategic information to the response. For oil
spill response, satellite imagery provides information that can be used to
support various missions, including assessing the initial (and potential
future) extent and impact of a spill, planning response operations and
monitoring the effectiveness of the response as a whole.

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